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Aug. 27th, 2025 10:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kradeelavGOOD NEWS this week finally started to shape up ... it's still pretty grueling in terms amount of obligations to do (sending all of the last doujin shipments and other stuff), but it's the last big week for a while and already i'm in a far, far better place mentally than two weeks ago. do i dare credit part of that with starting a radiant dawn run. :P
so i've been talking to EFF-recommended legal advisors about Stuff to do in advance in regarding to art and obscenity and personal websites and all of that. some of you know this, i am debating on posting a more lengthy post on that later when it's finished.
and in a pile of the really good advice that i was given about actionable items to do with one's personal site (if you post NSFW), is to have a fleshed out artist's statement that talks about the "why" of what you do with art, that way absolute worst case scenario you get your ass hauled up into court, you've got a little more of an artist's defense to go off on than trolling or shock art for the sake of shock (in the eyes of a legal court who might have reason to take your stuff in the most bad faith possible way).
and on one hand, okay, writing an artistic statement, been there, i guess i can wrangle together something better than my very tongue in cheek 'fuck authority' one lol.
but on the other hand....
the longer i think about it, the more wrong that starts to feel.
i've talked about this before obliquely here in this zine -- that the reason i got online was to get away from inherent assumptions people made about me (mostly physically but else-wise too). to be somebody else with a truly blank slate and to explore things in fiction / talk about topics with no real consenquence.
and it just... the more i think about it, the more an artist's statement that seeks to explain [why specifically i draw certian kink / dead dove art in defense ] the more ... slightly lowkey violating that feels, to explain the Stuff i'm trying to get away from, especially if i'm being forced to say it under duress. it's one thing if i explain life circumstances to a friend in private or oblique hints in art; there's a sense of earned trust there.
but it just ...
feels self defeating in the weirdest hollowest sense if i'm forced to loop back around to why i escaped it all to begin with?
and it's not even about me and my experiences specifically, it feels .... so wrong to the spirit of the (dead) internet i grew up with. information wants to be free. the idea of having to defend basic-ass art was so... foreign. that was the land of stupid physical laws. here in this digital home we all snuck away to, we were all well and truly free in the mind in a way that was astoundingly, staggeringly beautiful, and so rare in human history.
(I've been thinking a lot lately how much my heart aches that 'information wants to be free' is such a morbidly ironic line, these days. i really did believe that, for the longest time. still do, but falteringly.)
but hell, maybe that zine's my artist's statement. i don't really care to revisit it and it's aged remarkably well.
so i've been talking to EFF-recommended legal advisors about Stuff to do in advance in regarding to art and obscenity and personal websites and all of that. some of you know this, i am debating on posting a more lengthy post on that later when it's finished.
and in a pile of the really good advice that i was given about actionable items to do with one's personal site (if you post NSFW), is to have a fleshed out artist's statement that talks about the "why" of what you do with art, that way absolute worst case scenario you get your ass hauled up into court, you've got a little more of an artist's defense to go off on than trolling or shock art for the sake of shock (in the eyes of a legal court who might have reason to take your stuff in the most bad faith possible way).
and on one hand, okay, writing an artistic statement, been there, i guess i can wrangle together something better than my very tongue in cheek 'fuck authority' one lol.
but on the other hand....
the longer i think about it, the more wrong that starts to feel.
i've talked about this before obliquely here in this zine -- that the reason i got online was to get away from inherent assumptions people made about me (mostly physically but else-wise too). to be somebody else with a truly blank slate and to explore things in fiction / talk about topics with no real consenquence.
and it just... the more i think about it, the more an artist's statement that seeks to explain [why specifically i draw certian kink / dead dove art in defense ] the more ... slightly lowkey violating that feels, to explain the Stuff i'm trying to get away from, especially if i'm being forced to say it under duress. it's one thing if i explain life circumstances to a friend in private or oblique hints in art; there's a sense of earned trust there.
but it just ...
feels self defeating in the weirdest hollowest sense if i'm forced to loop back around to why i escaped it all to begin with?
and it's not even about me and my experiences specifically, it feels .... so wrong to the spirit of the (dead) internet i grew up with. information wants to be free. the idea of having to defend basic-ass art was so... foreign. that was the land of stupid physical laws. here in this digital home we all snuck away to, we were all well and truly free in the mind in a way that was astoundingly, staggeringly beautiful, and so rare in human history.
(I've been thinking a lot lately how much my heart aches that 'information wants to be free' is such a morbidly ironic line, these days. i really did believe that, for the longest time. still do, but falteringly.)
but hell, maybe that zine's my artist's statement. i don't really care to revisit it and it's aged remarkably well.
